WHO: What About TB? (STAT)

When the World Health Organization published its global priority list of antibiotic resistant bacteria, it overlooked the biggest infectious killer of all -- Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which infected more than 10 million people worldwide in 2015 alone, according to a report in STAT.

Of the 580,000 individuals who developed drug-resistant TB in that year, only one in five was diagnosed and treated, while the others typically remained contagious until succumbing to the illness.

The WHO explained that TB was not included because it's already an established priority, but the list must be amended, according to TB experts, particularly in light of an international summit on control of the disease planned for this coming November in Moscow that will help set future policies.

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